old rider - new hip

[Sesman]

I broke my neck in 1999 and had instrumented fusion (C6/7) followed by a discectomy and instrumented fusion in 2016 (C5/C6). The neuro surgeon simply said: “don’t do anything to ruin my investment in you, but live life to the full, without being reckless. So ride your bike, but don’t go racing”. He did also point out that orthopaedic surgeons and motorcyclists don’t make good drinking partners.

As Julie inferred, we make valued, quality of life decisions every day.

I used to do a lot of hangliding and the perceived thinking at the time was flying is not inherently dangerous, but We as humans introduce the risk/danger due to our behaviour. On balance I thinks that’s probably true about motorcycling too.

My wife’s a nurse too.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

This thread reminds me of when I was a patient in Ward 1 of the old Derby Royal Infirmary in the summer of 1965.
As the Matron did her morning ward rounds she looked at me with my left leg in traction.

She did not ask how I fractured my Femur  just  said "what make of bike was it ?".

When I replied it was an Aerial she said "Oh we haven't had one of those for ages" the ward had about eight of us with similar injuries - after 3 months in traction they decided to pin it.

[K2-K6]

I broke my neck in 1999 and had instrumented fusion (C6/7) followed by a discectomy and instrumented fusion in 2016 (C5/C6). The neuro surgeon simply said: “don’t do anything to ruin my investment in you, but live life to the full, without being reckless. So ride your bike, but don’t go racing”. He did also point out that orthopaedic surgeons and motorcyclists don’t make good drinking partners.

As Julie inferred, we make valued, quality of life decisions every day.

I used to do a lot of hangliding and the perceived thinking at the time was flying is not inherently dangerous, but We as humans introduce the risk/danger due to our behaviour. On balance I thinks that’s probably true about motorcycling too.

My wife’s a nurse too.

Blimey how'd you do that ? Must have been helluva job sorting out the shell colours for the rebuild 

As you've stated,  there's risk everywhere and reasonable appreciation should take place, but not stop us pursuing interesting things.

Heard of sad case the other day in which a 18 yrs old lad succumbed to a hard sweet stuck in his throat.  Also on here about the mental health aspect of mucking around with these old bikes, often far outways any downside for many.

[Johnny4428]

Wow! Very interesting hearing peoples personal stories regarding surgery and there after. I dread to think of not being able to ride again. If the will and the ability is there I will be cruising on some kind of two wheeler, god forbid might be a bloody electric thing by then.